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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and ... . After I graduated from MIT, I went to graduate school at Harvard. I did my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... psets all night it becomes much too easy to skip meals and rely on fast ... made the largest difference in terms of my day to day happiness it's not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  , I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post ... students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... told me that he convinced the EECS department to let him take his GIRs

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... -ly duties: 10. I was doing physics:  During IAP you’re only allowed to take ... composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric ... relentlessly upon Cambridgians' freezing bodies, the confetti to its gleeful ... visibly permeates Cambridge, and hike to Voltage Coffee, whose abilities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed ... , growing a beard is actually quite tough. To illustrate the self

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... want to be a part of our community. They are attracted to the innovative

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  else seems to be posting screenshots of their calendars, I'm going to do ... IAP trip to India - Taking EMS Shifts (I happen not to be on any this ... Homework, which currently includes: (1) Reading for 9.01 (Intro to Neuro

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade ... decency to ring their bells at least 3 meters before nicking off your left ... a good place to study solid-state chemistry.” So I should confess now

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where ... software to stick. I brought it down to the NASA computing center about 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm tomorrow, but, writing a response to Robert Creeley's "A Wicker Basket" just ... out to be my favorite class that term (the others were 8.04 8.044 18

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  took here my first semester was 21F.716, Introduction to Contemporary ... have a lot of similarities, so I'm already used to conjugating verbs and ... so close to each other that I often forget which is which. A perfect

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with ... two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... and Hand," MIT is very big on hands-on projects. To facilitate this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... . "What are you doing?! We have to study for our final!!" "QUIET. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Date: April 12, 2005 7:21:07 AM EDT To: [email protected] Subject: your MIT dance floor To the hip guys and gals at MIT, First off let me say, "Whoa ... just want to say, "Job well done!". Now only one question remains. So

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P ... presidential campaign. I highly recommend this book to anyone- no matter where ... political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006